Before using cloud storage data, enterprises must make sufficient preparations

 

Expensive hardware equipment, expensive cooling facilities, and staff maintenance costs are all data centers built with money. This huge number indicates how challenging it is to build your own data center, not to mention environmental issues. Therefore, it is costly for enterprises to establish their own data centers to store data. In this case, the emergence of cloud storage is like the advent of the data storage industry, helping enterprises use fragmented costs for data storage, and is becoming increasingly popular.
However, you cannot blindly migrate all data to cloud storage. Before you decide to use cloud storage data, you still have some preparation work to do:
　　1. Ensure that the cloud vendor data center is updated in real time and has industry Certifications
The cloud vendors selected by enterprises should comply with industry privacy and security compliance requirements, such as HIPAA and PCI. Make sure that the cloud vendor complies with the latest regulations, such as ssae 16.
　　2. Select a cloud vendor that understands your industry
Sometimes, enterprises inevitably choose some large manufacturers as their preferred targets, but they have a long history because of their good reputation. However, the vendors you choose also need to know about your business or industry, this is also one of the factors to consider. In this way, suppliers can develop storage solutions that are consistent with your enterprise.
　　3. Understand bandwidth limits
If you select cloud as a part of the storage policy, you must understand the bandwidth limit for initial massive data backup and recovery of massive data storage. Does the supplier provide the batch transmission function? What is the bandwidth limit for the supplier's geographic location?
Cloud storage requires that data be transferred from the local network of the enterprise to a wider network. This results in a large cost and requires high bandwidth for cloud storage. Bandwidth and transmission speed determine the expected time for data migration. Therefore, bandwidth and time are all important factors to consider.
　　4. Ensure Data Encryption
Before migrating data to the cloud, you must use encryption to protect your sensitive data. Some storage vendors provide server-side encryption, but it may be more wise to encrypt themselves. Remember, suppliers can encrypt your data, but they can also decrypt it. If the data has been encrypted before transmission, only you can decrypt the data. Therefore, before data is transmitted to the cloud, make sure that the data is encrypted. Otherwise, store the data locally.
　　5. carefully read the supplier SLA before signing the contract
Each vendor provides a storage service level, and the storage service should contain on-demand scalability to ensure application running, local or offline backup conflict snapshots, offline backup or data recovery capabilities, and there is no need to interrupt the high availability of storage during maintenance or update.
The supplier SLA should also include application and data hosting guarantees. At least, it should cover data and system availability, response time at the severity level of normal problems, and response time for handling specific security problems.
　　6. Understand the real cost of Cloud
When determining the price for the cloud service, you should specify what your monthly service includes and what additional services are. Cloud storage often has some additional feature fees, such as put and get (send data to the cloud and retrieve data), Dr tests related to your service, and bandwidth that exceeds the specified limits. It is recommended that you make some cost models, compare them with the existing solutions and the cost of the entire cloud service, and avoid blindly taking all your belongings into the cloud pool.
　　7. Do not overpurchase storage capacity
Determine the storage capacity required by the Organization now and in the future. According to an IDC survey, the annual data growth of most enterprises is about 40% to 60%. Therefore, enterprises can purchase more and more storage in bytes. Otherwise, you must have a pricing solution for each user. In addition, when selecting a user plan, this plan will not limit your storage consumption, so your annual spending will increase, which is foreseeable. You always know how many users there are, but you don't know how much storage capacity you will use.
Be sure to avoid purchasing too much storage and exceeding your needs.
　　8. Ensure that enterprises can restore Data
When selecting a backup vendor, do not forget to consider restoration. When you store data in a supplier, first think about how long it will take to restore the data if the data is lost or damaged, what kind of support do you get. These problems can help you set business expectations and reduce failure time.
Many services simplify the backup process, but it is the most difficult to restore data quickly and effectively. Before signing the contract, check whether the vendor has a simple data recovery solution.
　　9. Prepare a backup plan
When you decide to leave one "Cloud" and switch to another, or the cloud supplier gives up on you, make sure you have a ready-made plan to deal with this problem, or invest in a new cloud, and reduce losses.

Before using cloud storage data, enterprises must make sufficient preparations